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OET (OET-LV) And the Yaʸsous having_seen him, that he_answered intelligently, said to_him:
You_are not far from the kingdom of_ the _god.
And no_one no_longer was_daring to_ask him.
OET (OET-RV) When Yeshua saw that he had given such a thoughtful answer, he said, “You are very close to the kingdom of God!”
¶ After that, no one else dared to ask Yeshua any more questions.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἰδὼν αὐτὸν ὅτι
/having/_seen him that
Here, Mark is using the word seen to mean “observed” or “knew.” He is describing something a person would perceive with their mind by association with their eyes. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: “having understood that” or “having observed that”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
οὐ μακρὰν εἶ ἀπὸ τῆς Βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ
not far ˱you˲_are from the Kingdom ¬the ˱of˲_God
Here, Jesus speaks as if the man was physically not far from the kingdom of God. He means that the man is almost part of God’s kingdom. Jesus is speaking of the kingdom of God as if it were a physical place. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable figure of speech or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “You are almost in the kingdom of God” or “You almost belong to the kingdom of God”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
οὐ μακρὰν & ἀπὸ
not far & from
Jesus is using a figure of speech here that expresses a strongly positive meaning by using a negative word, not, together with an expression that is the opposite of the intended meaning, far. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the positive meaning. Alternate translation: “very close to”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
οὐδεὶς οὐκέτι ἐτόλμα
no_one no_longer /was/_daring
The words translated no one and any longer are two negative words. In this construction, the second negative does not cancel the first to create a positive meaning. Instead, it gives greater emphasis to the negative. If your language can use two negatives that do not cancel one another to create a positive meaning, you could use a double negative here. If your language does not use two negatives in that way, you could translate with one negative, as the ULT does. Alternate translation: “people no longer were daring”
12:34 The account ends with Jesus’ commending the teacher of religious law for recognizing that this twofold command was more important than burnt offerings and sacrifices (see Hos 6:6). We are left uncertain as to the fate of this man. He was not far from the Kingdom of God, but did he enter it? Mark might have intentionally left this question unanswered so that each reader would wrestle with the question, Have I entered the Kingdom of God?
OET (OET-LV) And the Yaʸsous having_seen him, that he_answered intelligently, said to_him:
You_are not far from the kingdom of_ the _god.
And no_one no_longer was_daring to_ask him.
OET (OET-RV) When Yeshua saw that he had given such a thoughtful answer, he said, “You are very close to the kingdom of God!”
¶ After that, no one else dared to ask Yeshua any more questions.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.